Aviceda Wildlife Sounds

  • Spinifex Pigeon?

    Here is another mystery, recorded in Sturt NP, NSW 07.30am 29 June 2012. The sound that I’m unable to identify is a soft “a-woo” repeated on the section on several occasions but particularly after the Little Crow’s 3-note outburst. All I can find on the available references are Spinifex Pigeon (which I’ve observed but not…

  • Mystery call from western NSW

    Wonder if someone can confirm the identity of the bird calling on this audio. It was ‘tagged’ on a static-sensor in Sturt NP, NSW in June 2012. I believe that it could be a Mulga Parrot (Psephotus varius) but I’m not 100% I’ve placed the call on the ‘Mysteries’ Forum on Xeno-Canto I’ve also got…

  • Black-throated Finch (Poephila cincta)

    Recently I was asked to check through audio captured from acoustic-sensors placed at the Bimblebox Reserve in the Galilee Basin of Central Queensland to verify the existence of the Black-throated Finch (Poephila cincta). Unfortunately I haven’t any experience of the species in the wild but after listening to hundreds of probable Double-barred Finch calls I’m …

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